It must be draining: Government’s main job is to debate and pass legislation including that of protecting folk from ‘prescribed’ organisations or cults, yet, the vast majority do as they are told as they put their parties first and their constituents and everyone else a distant second, as they jockey for position in the forlorn hope their leader will recognise their blind devotion and gift them a job in the department of rural affairs or some other such post for which their skillsets are gobsmackingly inadequate.
The decisions they take are then ‘spun’ as being in the public interest despite there being no thought of the butterfly effect and the long-term knock-on of their actions for this, and generations, to come.
Take disposable vapes: Yes, as a teacher, they have, in previous schools, been an ‘issue,’ with students hiding in the latrines as they chug on Sweet Marys so hard that they come out of trap three looking like they have just had a cheek lift. But is the ‘problem’ so bad that the Government feel the need, once again, to police freedom of choice and ‘ban’ such devices as if we are the subjects of a despotic regime, such as, say China?
Most people I know who vape disposables are fully grown adults. My wife, who doesn’t smoke, has a disposable vape which comes out every few weeks when attending a party but she’s a big girl (not literally!) and it’s her choice if she fancies a few puffs once a month, washed down with a fresh chianti.
By prohibiting any item, the butterfly starts to flap her wings: She will now be left with the option of buying a non-disposable with juice, coils, batteries and chargers and, with that expense, to justify her expenditure, surely that will mean more frequent use of said device? The other options are to do what vapes were designed for, to stop smoking, and instead go back to the Marlboro and give herself some real problems, or maybe that’s the plan all along?
In previous decades, the Government coined it in from tobacco duty. That revenue stream is now all but dried up as vapes have taken their place, not only squeezing the Government’s purse strings, but also meaning we live longer and therefore are more of a state pension burden when we age.
The lack of butterfly effect thinking pervades all areas of our lives, including, er, fly tipping: When I was a kid, if you wanted a mattress or tyre taken, you’d bung the binman (sorry, refuse operative) a couple of quid and he’d chuck it in the back of the cart. Now the refuse gestapo is in situ: with smaller bins, collected less frequently, as they search through your discarded items for foreign objects in which to excuse them from doing the job we pay the council so handsomely to do.
For businesses, already crucified financially at every turn, the cost of waste disposal is now so excessive that it leaves many unscrupulous tradespeople with little choice but to dump the used bathroom suite on a lay by on the green belt as we all, saddened, criticise this irksome and unsavoury behaviour, but fail to see the causes that led to this outcome.
But please, don’t take the word of a second-rate local hack as gospel. Just think, not about the what, but the why, and more importantly, what’s next?
As we see the return of the Eastern European black market street sellers who will flog you some dodgy Rothmans at half the shop price, before you burden the NHS once again having been poisoned, as we feel the breeze from the wings of the butterfly having banned disposable vapes…
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